BRIT Award Winner Tom Walker Releases Debut Album ‘What A Time To Be Alive’

Today March 1 sees the release of Tom Walker’s debut album, ‘What A Time To Be Alive’. The title could well be a description of what’s been going on in Tom’s head lately: he won the BRIT Award for British Breakthrough Act, and was nominated for his single, ‘Leave A Light On’. That track entered straight into the UK Official Top 40 songs of 2018, and also hit the #1 spot on iTunes in 20 countries, and sold Platinum in 10.

Swimming Bell – ‘1988’

Swimming Bell is the project of Katie Schottland. The Brooklyn-based folk singer broke her foot in 2015, and her imposed inactivity led her to write music. She writes by ear, having no formal musical training, and learned some basic chords from a chord sheet she printed out in order to work out how to play Neil Young’s ‘Harvest Moon’. From these gentle beginnings, she launched her debut EP, ‘The Golden Heart’, in October 2017, which was met with critical acclaim.

Chase The Jaguar – ‘Never Let You Down’

David and Sebastian Fox were exposed to music at a young age, by their father, a travelling musician who wrote protest songs in his native Argentina, and gave them a love of a wide range of musical styles. The Fox brothers are trained and touring classical guitarists, who play in small theatres across Europe, and have even shared the stage with Pavarotti. Chase The Jaguar howeer, is all about the other love in their lives: stripped back indie rock.

BLACKPINK Confirm US And European Dates For 2019 World Tour

Since first bursting onto the scene in 2016, BLACKPINK redefined the possibilities of K-Pop, transcending all categorization and ascending to global stardom. With their incredibly catchy single, ‘Ddu-Du Ddu-Du’, the South Korean quartet shattered the record for the highest-charting Billboard Hot 100 debut by an all-female K-Pop act, while the song’s head-turning video surpassed 10 million views in just six hours, and amassed 36.2 million views in one day.